History Drives Scale Steam Engine Models

Roger Meland with a disply of engines outside under a canopy at a thresher show.

The vacuum (flamelicker) engine.

A close-up photo of the horizontal winch engine.

The beginning of Roger Meland's dream of a horizontal winch engine like the one he saw as a kid. On the left side is a pulley to run a cement mixer and on the right is the lever used to put the machine in neutral.

The Walking Beam engine, a popular engine, with castings made by Stuart. This engine depicts Watts' parallel motion. Everyone thinks, at first, that it is an oil well engine.

A Stuart engine, a popul English make, runs a generator. This verticlal engine has a 3/4-inch bore and stroke. You can also put a reversing gear on it.